Metascience

Whether the extrapolation works or not? Who knows. By their own description, it sounds like they are simply massively p-hacking for accuracy on their own test set, which is a bonkers methodology that will definitely lead to false positives and false negatives

In my undergraduate sociology of science course we're starting the module on Sheila Jasanoff's work. My favorite part of the class. #SociologyOfScience #PublicHigherEd

I'm now at work on another paper on the Neo-Kantian background to Henry Margenau's philosophy of science, and how it is indebted to Cassirer's and the neo-Kantians' approach to causation in quantum mechanics. Watch the space! #philsci #hps #sts #metascience #histsci #philsky

Very proud to announce that my ancient manuscript on Henry Margenau is finally appearing in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: royalsocietypublishing.or… A preprint is already up at @philsci-archive.bsky.social #philsci #hps #sts #metascience #histsci #philsky

I was doing publication bias tests (do smaller studies have larger effect sizes, basically), and changing effect size measure has sometimes changed the direction of the "bias" altogether 🤦

The removal of "social science" from "science" seems like it's intensified post-"replication crisis" bullshit. There's always been a tension there, but now there's like an active effort to make it a "humanities" for disparagement purposes (among the groups that that's actually disparagement).

This is a very general statement. As someone in an empirical field that has gone through a "replication crisis," there are many steps and methods researchers go through to ensure their data is reliable. This is part of standard training in any decent research program

I think anyone evaluating the evidential value from studies that are plausibly described as AI hype (positive or negative) would do well to read Yarkoni 2020, "The generalizability crisis" doi.org/10.1017/S014...

Honor thy toolbox as a hidden moderator

Thanks to the @brennancenter.org for showing how state and local govts -- and not just the fed govt -- censor and politicize research. "Safeguarding Science in State Agencies." www.brennancenter.org/our…. #Censorship #DefendResearch #Metaresearch #USPol #USPolitics